New South Wales 1. BS Read 2. SA Flack 3. DW Lewis 4. AJ O'Driscoll 5. A Kolar 6. DR Armstrong 7. WC Welker 8. M Burridge 9. RG Cribb (c) 10. BC Jacobs 11. AM Farhat (k) 12. AD Hunt 13. SM Green 14. B Herd 15. K Fung 16. AJ Parker (On for DW Lewis after 60 mins) 17. MJ Johns (On for BC Jacobs after 60 mins) 18. AJ James Rest of Australia 1. S Masters 2. P Retzel 3. AD Funkotron 4. DK Erschoff 5. R Gee 6. BJT Manera (c) 7. JU Rocker 8. BJ Gemmell 9. M Perry 10. GEC King (k) 11. B Man 12. A Vago 13. BH Borisc 14. C Devonshire 15. AJ Son 16.B Dover (On for S Masters after 50 mins) 17. P Orr (On for BH Borisc afer 45 mins (Goes to 12 with Vago moving to 13)) 18. L Pilgrim (On for M Perry after 50 mins) Post Game Injuries: None
*Refers to AVA's comparative advantage* I am the better nubmer six and seven but because you play your best at 6 I play at 7 and still do better.
Update: 0 mins Well, there has been some controversy leading up to this game. NSW selector Freddy has not managed to submit his lineup and therefore the NSW players along with the help of Eds have had not make one for this game. This is the first proper rep match for NSW and ROA, and let's hope it can be an exciting one. SA Flack looks like he will easily be able to dominate the much taller P Retzel in the scrums. It will certainly be an interesting match up and AM Farhat has the ball now and we are live at the game.
Update: 20 mins AM Farhat has lofted a high one up, giving his forwards an excellent chance to contest for the ball in the air. But DK Erschoff takes it cleanly for ROA after very good lfiting from Rocker and Gemmell. ROA form a maul and Perry controls it from the back. He passes to GEC King who takes it well and hands it to Vago on the charge...A solid tackle from Hunt bring Vago down. The ROA pack has got there well and have clearly been practising their rucking drills. M Perry takes it again and decided to go blind. He pops one up to C Devonshire and that is a very good desicion! THERE WAS NO-ONE ON THE BLIND SIDE TO EVEN GET CLOSE TO DEVONSHIRE THERE. HE DIVES OVER THE TRY LINE AND MAKES THE SCORE 5-0 TO ROA. GEC King can't quite get the kick accurate enough and it sails off to the left of the posts. But NSW are definately not out of this. A converted try and they are in the lead. So they jog back with some hope as they line up to take the kick off. Farhat puts one to the reverse side which A Vago gathers well. He sidesteps the first man, but he runs into a crowd of players and gets taken down. The ROA pack keep driving as the maul forms and M Perry controls it as per usual. He takes it out for the box kick. But it has gone too long and has rolled into the dead ball area.
